No thoughts yet. I am most likely going to buy a second hand car around the 3-5 k mark. I want something reliable (for the price...), easy for me to work on myself and also a car I can learn with! My mechanic skills could use improving. I was thinking about a toyota.

Toyota is one of the worst for warranty periods. Nissan offered me 4 years manufacturer warranty with 6 years on top dealership warranty. Hyundai offered me 5 years manufacturer warranty. Toyota offered me 3 and for a small fortune, an extension to 5.

Just trying to get it sold mate :). I don't have a hard on for it, but it is a nice sounding exhaust and if you are into V8's, you would get it.Spook - What Corolla should I get? Will it come with a lifetime guarantee?

Nah no doubt, not having a go. You know the demographic you're going for. It's just not me and stood out as pandering, but smart pandering.

Needed to pass RWC:- 1 tyre- 1 brake light... pfft the thing has 5 f*****g brake lights, like one missing is going to matter but apparently it does- new wiper bladesand he reckons the CV boot is leaking, I reckon it's not, it's just all the grease coming out because I packed that f***** too full when I put it all back together and the excess grease has forced its way out. Either way I have a spare CV boot I'm contemplating putting on if it is broken, otherwise it just needs cleaning off.

I dunno, you see them all over carsales for $1500 - $5000, I was thinking somewhere in the middle. Maybe stick 2 or 3k on it and let someone haggle a bit. There's always that guy who rocks up & goes "I'll give you $1900 cash right now".

I've got about 12 more days to fix the crap on it & get the final inspection done before I can sell it rego'd though.

^^ same. Although I do like the fact the econobox goes more than 200kms before I have to fill it up again.

2k? thats an outrageously expensive price!

glad i got the hardware model!

Difference being whoever buys mine will have a car they can just go and drive, and a boot full of spare parts, and another set of rims instead of a rusty s***box that's full of holes that's probably a deathtrap.

Its not about the environment, it's about the money. I sat down and worked out how much it was costing me and there is more to life than cars I decided. Plus I have to grow up and become more responsible, I am even consolidating my super. So many chores to do. Getting older is no fun.

There is two ways to look at this:1) The car is basically a mobile phone plan, you go from model to model.2) The car is on a huge balloon lease, where after 4 years you restart the whole thing, kind of like a lease car but without any salaray sacrifice lowering of income etc.

I basically couldn't figure whether to go 0% for 4 years or toyota access for 4, but i guess it works like this: if you keep your car low KM's and clean, you probably would be better off selling it outright after 4 years for more than the balloon is worth. But you did pay upfront money to get there. So you have to discount the cost back to compare.

It's actually a really complicated thing, so in the end i went with the good finance rate and outright ownership after 4 years, because all the figures are too guesstimatey to use finance calculations with any kind of meaning.

Just understand that you never own the car unless at the end of the 4 year access you pay out the 8k or 16k or whatever the agreed final value is.

Edit:

don't worry bro i'm not about to sell my car for some eco-s******

Well, if this is Pave's advice, what could possibly go wrong..........

I was sitting at the lights in my fully sick corolla (from previous page) and an xr6 turbo owner (it was blue) was so jealous when the lights went green he pinged it off the rev limiter just to get in front of me. Then proceeded to go granny pace around all the corners and as soon as another straight came BAMF! rev limiter.

Only serious complaint so far would be the ZF gearbox in it. I gotta get mine look at because the change down from 2 to 1 is sloooooow when cold. In semi-auto mode the gear change is OK, so I assume the electronic timing settings on it need work.

Otherwise the car acts just like you would expect when you plonk a turbo on an xr6. 270kw, still handles like a boat :P